---
title: "Vending-Bench: Long-Horizon Agent Evals for a Simulated Vending Business"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-30"
time: "10:45am-11:05am"
track: "Evals"
room: "Track 5"
speakers: ["Lukas Petersson"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Evals"
scheduleRoom: "Track 5"
scheduleLabels: ["Evals", "Track 5", "sponsor", "confirmed"]
---
# Vending-Bench: Long-Horizon Agent Evals for a Simulated Vending Business

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 10:45am-11:05am
- Track/room: Evals · Track 5
- Speaker(s): Lukas Petersson
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed

- Track: Evals
- Room: Track 5
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
Long-horizon agent evals via a simulated vending machine business, testing negotiation, pricing, and supplier management over 365 days.

## Media Evidence
No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
No linked video, transcript, or slide source has been attached yet.

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
No official session recording transcript was found by exact title match on the AI Engineer YouTube channel during this run.

## People
- [[lukas-petersson]]

## Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Vending-Bench: Long-Horizon Agent Evals for a Simulated Vending Business ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 10:45am-11:05am - Track/room: Evals · Track 5 - Speaker(s): Lukas Petersson - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Evals - Room: Track 5 - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Long-horizon agent evals via a simulated vending machine business, testing negotiation, pricing, and supplier management over 365 days. ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet. ## Evidence Graph This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits. ### Media Signals No linked video, transcript, or slide source has been attached yet.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[lukas-petersson|Lukas Petersson]] — Co-Founder at [[andon-labs|Andon Labs]].

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.